[a continuation of the One Thousand Gifts that I'm listing over time--this, a far less spiritual grouping]
3. Free range turkey for Thanksgiving.
4. Chocolate chip cookies straight from the oven. Very gooey.
5. Unexpectedly warm temperatures today. It’s in the 60s F.
6. This laptop. I always dreamed of being able to move around the house at will–or to a bookstore, library, or coffee shop–and still be able to work. Thanks to this Dell laptop, I can.
7. The first year that Thanksgiving dinner will be prepared on the sleek new flat-top stove and roasted in the big, gleaming oven. What a difference compared with the Tan Clunker (may it rest in peace).
8. Free magazine subscriptions. This calls for a brief explanation–The Belgian Wonder accumulated enough frequent flyer miles to get something, but not enough for a free flight. The miles were about to expire, so we had to act fast. They offered us some free magazine subscriptions–The Belgian Wonder tossed the flyer over to me one evening and asked if any of them interested me. Did any of them interest me? I love magazines! They’re just so doggone expensive, I never get them. Oh, people, the list included The Week, which gathers from news sources around the world article and opinion pieces about the week’s top stories and issues; several food and health magazines (I blush to admit that I can’t even remember all that I ordered); The Wall Street Journal; and The Economist. I went wild checking all those boxes and filling in the codes–all of them free, free, free! They haven’t all started to arrive, but I’ve gotten one issue of The Week, and my first of The Economist. Mmmm…..magazines. I’m very happy to know that this wide range of satisfying reading material is going to start appearing in my mailbox. It almost makes up for the fact that we aren’t going to fly anywhere interesting using those miles. In fact, I think some of the magazines deserve their own separate listings. Number 8 represents the fact that I got all of them free.
9. The Economist. I’d been thinking for some time that I wanted to subscribe to The Economist after reading several recommendations–an educator raved about the depth of reporting, and I recently noted that Mental Multivitamin praised it. A day or so later, I received my first copy. I think it’s going to help me understand complex issues a little better than a typical news magazine.
10. The Week. I’d been sharing a subscription with a friend, but now I get my own copy!
11. The Wall Street Journal, assuming the subscription goes through.
Finally, to round out the list of ten trite things for which I’m grateful, a non-magazine-related item:
12. Goodwill. We’re regulars. I even visited two Goodwills on my birthday last year–check out the link for pictorial proof. Plus, my brother’s advertising firm does the commercials. I liked this one. And this one, too.
Magazines are wonderful. I really like Radiant, and I want to get a subscription to Eliza, too. But alas, they are just so expensive! How great to get a bunch for free!
I rather enjoy Southern Lady magazine lately….all kinds of interesting tidbits to stir my southern-fried senses.
Canon Powershot G11 dead pixels? I am not too positive if it’s what you call dead pixels, but about the LCD display screen, you will find little black dots. I realize it’s not dust or dirt on the lens, since it seems in pictures I’ve taken before I had this difficulty. There are about three or 4 black dots about the LCD screen, and they’re not as well near to each and every other. I purchased my camera in September. Ought to I deliver it in to Canon to have it fixed?